How To Adjust Hue And Saturation in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a useful tool which can be used
to apply various fixes and corrections to photos in a matter of
seconds. This application combines several others, which makes using it
very simple. Lightroom is popular with bloggers who want to touch up
their photos, but still get them out there as quickly as possible.

Lightroom may not completely replace Photoshop, however, this is
useful for minor touch-ups. One thing that you can do is adjust the hue
and saturation of an image with a few simple mouse clicks.

Tools and Materials Needed

Photoshop Lightroom

Photograph

Step 1: Open the Photo

First, you should open Photoshop Lightroom and then load your photo.
If you don't already have a photograph to experiment on, then you
should be able to find a suitable one on the Internet or on stock
market websites.

Step 2: Select the Develop Mode

At the top of the screen, there are a series of modes which can be
used in the software. Clicking on the Develop tab will make the develop
modules appear, which can be used to adjust the color and saturation of
the image.

In the develop module, scroll down until you find the HSL / Color /
Gray-scale section. The HSL tab allows you to easily adjust the Hue,
Saturation and Luminance all in one easy place.

Step 3: Using the Tool

The HSL tool works in a very similar way to the hue, saturation
adjustment in Photoshop. However, there are a few interesting features
which make using it a real joy. The Hue tool is split into a number of
separate sliders, which allows you to be able to adjust various colors.
This means that you can recolor a photograph easily by removing or
introducing different colors.

Step 4: Saturation

Clicking the saturation section at the top of the HSL tool will also
make it possible to adjust the saturation of the image. This works in
pretty much the same way as the Hue tool in Photoshop. There are a
number of colored sliders which can be adjusted to boost or remove
certain colors from the picture.

Step 5: More Advanced Features

Sometimes, it won't be clear which colors you need to adjust because
skin tones and many other things are made up of a series of colors.
That's where Lightroom makes things really simple. Click on the small
circular button above the saturation sliders, which is labeled 'adjust
saturation,' by dragging the image.

Now you can move over the image with your cursor and drag to remove
or add color easily. This is a very useful feature because it will
adjust all of the colors which are used in the feature that you are
picking.

Step 6: Experimenting

Simply playing around with the hue and saturation features can help
you to understand exactly what they do and when they might be useful.
Experiment on some simple photos first with only a few colors.